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I've been thrown the last year or so when I say "thank you" to someone doing their job (server, cashier, etc.) if they are younger Gen Z, they say "Of course!" with a kind of shocked look that makes me question if saying "thank you" was somehow inappropriate on my part and I feel like Grandpa Simpson. I'm 40.
They're not used to people your age and older thanking them. For much as the older folks out there demand we say please and thank you, they don't say it to service workers because they don't see them as people. I know from my own experience being surrounded by service workers